Recognition by Awardco

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Last updated by the developer on: June 24, 2024

General information

Information provided by Awardco to Microsoft:

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App name Recognition by Awardco
ID WA200002387
Office 365 clients supported Microsoft Teams
Partner company name Awardco
Company's website https://award.co
App's Terms of Use https://awardco.force.com/Customerhelp/s/article/Terms-of-S...
Core functionality of the app Make employee recognition and engagement more powerful than ever by recognizing and rewarding employees through Microsoft Teams. Recognizing in Microsoft Teams works directly with your established Awardco recognition programs and posts to the Awardco recognition feed to broadcast company values and highlighting employee success stories. To set the channel up for notification, go to the integration settings in the awardco platform.
Company headquarter location United States of America
App info page
What is the hosting environment or service model used to run your app? Iaas
Which hosting cloud providers does the app use? Azure, Aws
Customer support contact. support@awardco.com

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How the app handles data

This information has been provided by Awardco about how this app collects and stores organizational data and the control that your organization will have over the data the app collects.

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Does the app or underlying infrastructure process any data relating to a Microsoft customer or their device? Yes
What data is processed by your app? TenantIds, UserObjectIds, User Identity Tokens
Does the app support TLS 1.1 or higher? Yes
Does the app or underlying infrastructure store any Microsoft customer data? Yes
What data is stored in your databases? TenantIds, UserObjectIds
If underlying infastructure processes or stores Microsoft customer data, where is this data geographically stored? United States of America
Do you have an established data rentention and disposal process? Yes
How long is data retained after account termination? More than 90days
Do you have an established data access management process? Yes
Do you transfer customer data or customer content to third parties or sub-processors? No

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Information from the Microsoft Cloud App Security catalog appears below.

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Do you perform annual penetration testing on the app? Yes
Does the app have a documented disaster recovery plan, including a backup and restore strategy? Yes
Does your environment use traditional anti-malware protection or application controls? ApplicationControls, TraditionalAntiMalware
Do you have an established process for indentifying and risk ranking security vulnerabilities? Yes
Do you have a policy that governs your service level agreement (SLA) for applying patches? Yes
Do you carry out patch management activities according to your patching policy SLAs? Yes
Does your enviroment have any unsupported operating systems or software? No
Do you conduct quarterly vulnerability scanning on your app and the infastructure that supports it? Yes
Do you have a firewall installed on your external network boundary? Yes
Do you have an established change management process used to review and approve change requests before they are deployed to production? Yes
Is an additional person reviewing and approving all code change requests submitted to production by the original developer? Yes
Do secure coding practices take into account common vulnerability classes such as OWASP Top 10? Yes
Multifactor Authentication (MFA) enabled for: CodeRepositories, DNSManagement, Credential
Do you have an established process for provisioning, modification, and deletion of employee accounts? Yes
Do you have Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDPS) software deployed at the perimeter of the network boundary supporting your app? Yes
Do you have event logging set up on all system components supporting your app? Yes
Are all logs reviewed on a regular cadence by human or automated tooling to detect potential security events? Yes
When a security event is detected are alerts automatically sent to an employee for triage? Yes
Do you have a formal information security risk management process established? Yes
Do you have a formal security incident response process documented and established? Yes
Do you report app or service data breaches to supervisory authorities and individuals affected by the breach within 72 hours of detection? Yes

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Does the app comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accounting Act (HIPAA)? N/A
Does the app comply with Health Information Trust Alliance, Common Security Framework (HITRUST CSF)? N/A
Does the app comply with Service Organization Controls (SOC 1)? No
Does the app comply with Service Organization Controls (SOC 2)? Yes
Which SOC 2 certification did you achieve? type2
Most recent SOC2 certification date 2023-08-31
Does the app comply with Service Organization Controls (SOC 3)? No
Do you carry out annual PCI DSS assessments against the appand its supporting environment? N/A
Is the app International Organization for Standardization (ISO 27001) certified? No
Does the app comply with International Organization for Standardization (ISO 27018)? N/A
Does the app comply with International Organization for Standardization (ISO 27017)? N/A
Does the app comply with International Organization for Standardization (ISO 27002)? N/A
Is the app Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) compliant? No
Does the app comply with Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)? N/A
Does the app comply with Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)? N/A
Does the app comply with Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)? N/A
Does the app comply with NIST 800-171? Yes
Has the app been Cloud Security Alliance (CSA Star) certified? No

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Do you have GDPR or other privacy or data protection requirements or obligations (such as CCPA)? No

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Does your application integrate with Microsoft identity platform (Microsoft Entra ID) for single-sign on, API access, etc.? Yes
Have you reviewed and complied with all applicable best practices outlined in the Microsoft identity platform integration checklist? Yes
Does your app use the latest version of MSAL (Microsoft Authentication Library) or Microsoft Identity Web for authentication? No
Does your app support Conditional Access policies? Yes
If your app does not use one of the above libraries, what authentication library or libraries does it use? Microsoft.Bot.Connector.Authentication
List the types of policies supported Only select authorized individuals have access to the production and administrator environment. Awardco uses role-based access with least privilege. Policies and procedures relating to access authorization are written, enforced, and reviewed annually.
Does your app support Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) No
Does your app store any credentials in code? No
Apps and add-ins for Microsoft 365 might use additional Microsoft APIs outside of Microsoft Graph. Does your app or add-in use additional Microsoft APIs? No

Data access using Microsoft Graph

Graph Permission Permission Type Justification Microsoft Entra App ID
AppCatalog.Submit delegated Allows us to install the app on a client's Teams instance. b07deb81-d73b-437f-a1b8-68db7d9a3904
Channel.ReadBasic.All delegated Allows us to get a list of all channels so that admins can setup and configure the recognition feed to post to them. b07deb81-d73b-437f-a1b8-68db7d9a3904
Group.Read.All delegated Allows us to get a list of all groups so that admins can setup and configure the recognition feed to post to them. b07deb81-d73b-437f-a1b8-68db7d9a3904
Team.ReadBasic.All delegated Allows us to get a list of all teams so that admins can setup and configure the recognition feed to post to them. b07deb81-d73b-437f-a1b8-68db7d9a3904
TeamsAppInstallation.ReadForUser delegated Allows us to verify that a user has our app installed b07deb81-d73b-437f-a1b8-68db7d9a3904
TeamsAppInstallation.ReadWriteForTeam delegated Allows us to install a bot onto a channel for the recognition feed posting. b07deb81-d73b-437f-a1b8-68db7d9a3904
User.Read delegated Allows us to get basic information about the user and their organization, including their Tenant Id which allows us to tie their company in Teams to their company in Awardco. b07deb81-d73b-437f-a1b8-68db7d9a3904
User.Read.All delegated Allows us to get basic information about the user and their organization, including their Tenant Id which allows us to tie their company in Teams to their company in Awardco. b07deb81-d73b-437f-a1b8-68db7d9a3904
offline_access delegated Allows us to maintain access even after the initial setup process so that the feed of recognitions can still post to the channels. b07deb81-d73b-437f-a1b8-68db7d9a3904

This application does not have Additional APIs.

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